Introduced by Zadie Smith 'One of the very greatest American novels of the twentieth century.
It is so lyrical it should be sentimental it is so passionate it should be overwrought but it
is instead a rigorous convincing and dazzling piece of prose as emotionally satisfying as it
is impressive. There is no novel I love more' Zadie Smith 'It speaks to me as no novel past or
present has ever done' Alice Walker When at sixteen Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny
Taylor her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures
two stifling marriages before she finally meets the man of her dreams - who offers not diamonds
but a packet of flowering seeds.
